Please welcome character
Nicholas Masserman
to our blog today!
He is the star of the book The Apple Tree
He is the star of the book The Apple Tree
Created by Lynette Sofras
I'm a lucky girl... I just gotta throw that in there. As I'm sitting here waiting for my next guest to arrive, I stand looking out the window and holy cow! This amazing blue Lamborghini pulls up out front. Now some woman aren't into cars, but I am! So when this freaking hunk steps out of the car, I don't know which one to look at more closely!! Reminding myself I am a professional, I step away from the window and wait for him to come in.
Welcome Nicholas! So glad you could join us! Nice car by the way. Let's get started and tell me about this book you star in!
When I first saw Dr Juliet Sommerville in a
friend’s garden center, she immediately intrigued me and I could see the
interest was mutual.
lol... I love when that happens.... Immediate chemistry!
She mistook me for
someone who worked there and I found her error amusing and delightful. I should have set her straight from the
outset, told her I was a rather high powered business man, not a humble
gardener; but I couldn’t resist going along with the deception.
Funny and kind of wicked... lol...
Oh boy....
What I couldn’t know then was that she
wasn’t the only one to be deceived. The
idyllic weeks that followed were the best of my life. We were inseparable. I thought I’d found my soul mate; she was
everything I ever wanted, or so I thought.
That was before I discovered she was aka Juliet Gardiner – Mrs! In my anger, I sent her away – refused to
listen to her explanations. I thought I
knew myself. But the pain of that
discovery, not to mention the torment that followed it, was enough to change my
life. I had a lot of growing up to do
that summer.
Growing up isn't always bad...
Juliet disappeared after an argument and I
thought I’d lost her forever. The hole
she left in my life was too painful to describe. Then in late summer, she reappeared, but with
another man hot on her heels and she, too, had changed. She’d experienced a life-changing trauma and
I hardly knew her anymore. Had our
springtime romance meant so little to her?
Once we’d shared everything, now we couldn’t even share a full
sentence. We were like strangers. Was there any way I could rekindle our
springtime romance and prove myself worthy of her?
Sounds very intriguing! Let me ask you a few more questions...
We all want to be different, so what is
the one thing you wish your creator had done differently with you?
She should have given me a voice. Instead she chose to write entirely from
Juliet’s POV, while I stood around in silent anguish wanting to tell MY story!
If you could have added something to
the story, and your creator would have let you, what would that have been?
No one knows the
torment I went through the night Juliet left and I really think they
should. Seeing events from Juliet’s eyes
only made me look heartless. I should
have been able to put my point of view across.
What do you love best about yourself?
What do you like least?
I like to think I’m a good person and a loyal
friend. Other than that, I’m just an
ordinary bloke. I know I’m
stubborn. I thought my head ruled my
heart and that I could rationalise love.
I really believed I knew myself and had to learn my lesson the hard way.
What part of the book was the hardest
for you and your creator to work through?
After the summer, when Juliet returned, we found
ourselves often being thrown into each other’s path and it was quite painful at
times. You see we both had entirely the
wrong idea about each other and just couldn’t communicate properly. All my instincts told me to take her in my
arms and tell her my true feelings - and trying to justify why I couldn’t just do
that was not easy for either of us.
Is there a sequel for this book? If so,
what do you want to accomplish in the next book. If not, do you wish you could
continue your story?
No sequel planned but I have been keeping an eye on
reader’s comments and I know some of them want to hear more about us. At the moment, Juliet and I are busy planning
the wedding and I plan to surprise her with the most romantic honeymoon
imaginable; perhaps afterwards I might insist on a sequel – but this time from
MY point of view!
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Thanks for giving me a chance to have my say, Stacy. It's been great talking to you ;)
ReplyDeleteNicholas.
Thank you, Lyn and Stacy, for that fun interview. I think it's great to view a story through another character's (but the heroine's) eyes. I love Lynette Sofras's books.
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